- Plea
- Bail. (Higher, lower than requested; conditional release.)
- Behavior, statements of defendant.
- Statements of prosecutor, defense lawyer, judge.
- Summary of crime.
- Statements of prosecutor, defense lawyer.
- Plea bargaining arranged?
- Summary of crime.
- Judge’s decision.
- Grand jury action: true bill, no bill.
- Information filed. (Judge decides at preliminary hearing whether there is cause for trial.)
- Rearrangement, pretrial motions, jury selection, trial.
Opening statements, prosecution presents case, defense cross-examine, redirect examination by prosecution, defense motions, defense calls witnesses, prosecution, cross-examination defense witnesses, defense may redirect examination of its witnesses, rebuttals (witnesses may be recalled; judge may permit new witnesses), closing arguments, judge charges or instructs jury, jury deliberations, verdict, sentence.